Promise Tracker
16 are funded and 20 are announced or in policy development. For 29, no public progress source has been found yet. “Delivered” means a launch or a current public baseline is visible, not a final outcome. Strategy promises are commitments, not proof of delivery.
By stage
Four stages from the official strategy register. Open a stage to see its commitments in the promise register.
Official commitment or policy work exists, but delivery proof is not yet public.
Show commitmentsActive16commitmentsFunding or program machinery is visible; outcome evidence still needs watching.
Show commitmentsDelivered5commitmentsA launch or current public baseline is visible. This is evidence, not a final outcome claim.
Show commitmentsNeeds Evidence29commitmentsThe strategy promise exists, but the tracker needs a separate progress source.
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Commitments where the next public document or report would most directly improve the tracker.
Support applied AI research, testing, and deployment for fraud prevention, cyber defence, threat detection, and data protection.
Work on transparency measures such as watermarking so Canadians can identify AI interactions and content.
Create a certification program to help Canadians identify trustworthy AI products in the marketplace.
Coordinate with frontier AI companies and international partners to protect Canadians and critical systems.
Evidence atlas
Select any non-zero cell to filter the promise register. The matrix shows evidence status, not delivery proof.
| Pillar | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protecting Canadians | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||
| Empowering Canadians | 0 | 19 | |||||
| Adoption | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Sovereign AI | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Canadian champions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||
| Partnerships | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Targets and measurable signals
A bar appears only when a public latest value can be compared with a stated target. Pending rails mean the tracker needs delivery evidence before it can show progress.
Share of Canadian businesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services
32% of stated target value using the latest public value.
The tracker shows latest divided by target, not a claim that the strategy is 32% delivered. Statistics Canada's Q2 2026 release is the latest official current-use measure.
New jobs through AI adoption
Measurement pending
This is an official outcome target. No public measurement series is wired yet for jobs attributable to AI adoption.
Youth work opportunities, student reach, and educator training
Delivery evidence pending
The strategy gives public reach targets, but this tracker needs delivery counts before showing progress.
Sovereign compute capacity and access
Delivery evidence pending
Funding and target language are public. Delivery needs procurement, capacity, access, pricing, and usage evidence.
GDP gains from labour productivity and AI commercialization/application
Attribution method pending
This is an economic-impact ambition, not a directly observed public metric. It should be tracked through productivity and adoption evidence over time.
Trusted partnerships and alliance milestones
Milestone evidence pending
The tracker treats alliances as milestones until public joint work, procurement, standards, or investment outputs can be verified.
Evidence gaps
Ranked by unresolved rows, not editorial severity.
Evidence that would close rows:
Evidence that would close rows:
Evidence that would close rows:
Context
Public measurements related to the strategy that do not match a stated target, so they are context, not progress.
Planning to use AI over the next 12 months is a demand signal. It is not adoption already achieved and is not added to the current-use rate.
This is an experimental exposure estimate for job transformation risk and complementarity. It does not predict actual job losses or gains.
This static count comes from the public Open Government CSV. It shows disclosure activity, not a complete inventory or quality rating.
A federal public-service lighthouse project gives a measurable adoption example, but it is adjacent context rather than proof that the new national strategy has delivered.
Promise register
Filter the register by pillar, evidence model, status, or target year. The table keeps official promises separate from public progress evidence.
Accountability pipeline
These lanes translate the detailed status matrix into a reader-facing accountability flow. They show what kind of evidence is visible, not whether the strategy has succeeded.
Evidence gap shortcut
0 matching commitments need a separate public progress source in this view.
When do the promises come due? Only 6 of 70 commitments carry a stated target year.
| Evidence note | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Raise business AI adoption to 60%Increase Canadian business AI adoption from about 12% to 60% by 2034.Measurable target | Adoption | Measured baselineexternal progress source | 60%Latest: 19.2%Target year: 2034 | The strategy launch baseline is 12.2%; Statistics Canada's latest current-use release is 19.2%. This is a measurement update, not proof of strategy impact.ISED overviewISED full strategyStatistics Canada Q2 2025Statistics Canada Q2 2026 |
Free AI literacy for CanadiansProvide all Canadians with access to free AI literacy training and practical learning resources.Program milestone | Empowering Canadians | Launchedofficial program | Access for all CanadiansLatest: Free courses for students and educators opened Sept. 21, 2026; public stream through community partners to follow | The program exists and is free; delivery to "all Canadians" still needs availability and participation reporting.ISED overviewISED full strategyISED Sept. 2026 |
Create National AI Literacy InitiativeOffer entry-level AI training accessible to all Canadians.Program milestone | Empowering Canadians | Launchedofficial program | National AI literacy trainingLatest: Launched Sept. 9, 2026: $13M, delivered by Amii; student and educator courses open Sept. 21 | Availability, accessibility, and uptake need public reporting.ISED full strategyISED Sept. 2026 |
Reach students and educators with AI literacy kitsReach 1 million entry-level post-secondary students and train more than 3,000 educators.Measurable target | Empowering Canadians | Launchedofficial program | Up to 1M students / 50,000+ K-12 educators (Sept. 2026 release)Latest: Student and educator courses opened Sept. 21, 2026; no reach count published yet | The September 2026 release sets the educator goal at more than 50,000, higher than the strategy's 3,000+. No delivery count is published yet.ISED full strategyISED Sept. 2026 |
Track societal, labour-market, and economic AI impactsUse Statistics Canada's Artificial Intelligence and Technology Measurement Program to guide policy.Program milestone | Empowering Canadians | Launchedexternal progress source | Ongoing measurement programLatest: Business AI-use series available | Statistics Canada already provides business-use measures, but broader societal impact measures need wiring.ISED full strategyStatistics Canada Q2 2025Statistics Canada Q2 2026Statistics Canada Q3 2025 |
Increase Canadian business AI adoption from about 12% to 60% by 2034.
Provide all Canadians with access to free AI literacy training and practical learning resources.
Offer entry-level AI training accessible to all Canadians.
Reach 1 million entry-level post-secondary students and train more than 3,000 educators.
Use Statistics Canada's Artificial Intelligence and Technology Measurement Program to guide policy.
All matching commitments are visible.
Source notes
Official strategy pages establish what was promised. They do not prove money was spent well, programs reached people, or outcomes changed.
Reading rule: an official commitment row means the promise exists in the public strategy. A progress row needs a separate public source such as legislation, funding awards, procurement notices, program reports, Statistics Canada releases, registry entries, or partnership outputs.
Sources
Each source with what it is best used for and its limits.
Overview of Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · June 4, 2026
High-level public outcomes, six-pillar framing, and plain-language strategy context.
A strategy overview is not delivery evidence. It states intent and headline targets.
Open sourceCanada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · June 5, 2026
The controlling source for outcome targets and explicit key-action commitments.
Official commitments are not independent proof that programs have launched, reached users, or delivered outcomes.
Open sourceBusinesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services
Statistics Canada · June 16, 2025
Narrow, official baseline for businesses using AI in goods or services.
Does not capture informal employee use, pilots, or broader generative-AI experimentation.
Open sourceCanadian Survey on Business Conditions, second quarter 2026
Statistics Canada · May 27, 2026
Current business AI-use measure and comparison against Q2 2025 and Q2 2024.
The Canadian Survey on Business Conditions is scheduled for its final collection cycle in summer 2026, so the tracker may need a successor series.
Open sourceBusinesses planning to use AI
Statistics Canada · September 11, 2025
Businesses planning to adopt AI and reported reasons for non-adoption.
Plans are not delivered adoption and should not be added to the current-use rate.
Open sourceExposure to artificial intelligence in Canadian jobs: Experimental estimates
Statistics Canada · September 25, 2024
Context for workforce adaptation, training, and job-transformation commitments.
Experimental estimates use 2021 census and O*NET-based exposure methods; they do not show actual job losses or gains from AI.
Open sourceAI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027
Government of Canada · March 2025
Federal public-sector AI governance, delivery, and responsible-use context.
Does not measure whole-of-government AI adoption or delivery outcomes.
Open sourceGCtranslate deployed government-wide to support official languages in the federal public service
Translation Bureau, Government of Canada · June 18, 2026
Rollout dates and usage of the first lighthouse project under the AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service.
Federal public-service progress is not the same as delivery of Canada's whole-of-economy AI for All strategy.
Open sourceAlgorithmic Impact Assessment and federal AI register
Government of Canada · Ongoing
Public disclosure of some federal automated decision systems and assessment artifacts.
Registry coverage is not a complete inventory of all government AI use.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada AI Register (Minimum Viable Product)
Open Government Portal · April 28, 2026
A public transparency count for registered federal AI systems.
The MVP register is not a complete inventory of every federal AI use and should not be used as a whole-government adoption rate.
Open sourcePan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
CIFAR · Ongoing
Research-network and AI-chair context that sits behind the strategy's talent commitments.
Useful program context, but not a full delivery tracker for the new strategy.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada launches National AI Literacy Initiative
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · September 9, 2026
Funding, delivery partner, streams, reach goals and opening dates.
Reach goals are targets, not delivered counts.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada tables new legislation to protect children’s data, strengthen privacy and build trust in the digital economy
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · June 15, 2026
What the privacy bill proposes and who would enforce it.
A tabled bill is not law.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada introduces legislation to combat online harms, particularly those impacting children
Canadian Heritage · June 10, 2026
Scope of the online safety bill, including AI chatbot services.
A tabled bill is not law.
Open sourceCanada and Republic of Korea sign memorandum of understanding to advance AI innovation and safety
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · July 8, 2026
Evidence of international AI safety cooperation.
No funding or deliverables named.
Open sourceCanada and Saudi Arabia signed memorandum of understanding to advance AI and digital innovation
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · July 15, 2026
Evidence of a Middle East AI partnership.
A memorandum is a statement of intent.
Open sourceCanada and Germany invest in LawZero to build a new approach to safe, sovereign AI
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · September 16, 2026
Federal support for safe-by-design model research.
Outputs and jobs are planned, not delivered.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada welcomes major new investment in sovereign AI infrastructure in Saskatchewan
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · September 14, 2026
Planned sovereign compute capacity.
Planned capacity is not capacity in service.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada launches Canada’s Responsible Data Centre Development Principles
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · September 3, 2026
Voluntary commitments on local benefits, power costs, water and transparency.
Voluntary; no enforcement.
Open sourceCanadian Survey on Business Conditions, third quarter 2026
Statistics Canada · August 31, 2026
Businesses planning to use AI in the next 12 months, and why others do not.
Plans are not adoption and are not added to the current-use rate.
Open source